Knowing How To Rightly Divide The Bible Is The Key To Understanding Prophecy

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Our topic this evening is entitled Knowing How To Rightly Divide The Bible Is The Key To Understanding Prophecy, and we will cover great stretches of both Testaments in order to see the full and complete end time picture. Our sub-topic will be on the necessity of a Pretribulation Rapture that begins the time of Jacob's trouble.

Oftentimes people will say to me, "well, brother, it doesn't really matter what your position on the Rapture is, it's not an essential of the faith". And there was I time when I might have agreed with that statement, but not anymore. While it is true that you don't need to know whether the Rapture is pre, mid or post to get saved, it is also equally true that you can get saved without knowing any more Bible than John 3:16. The question is, are you comfortable with being ignorant of the Bible doctrine that Paul commands us to study?